Rover Pilot Blues

[PresidentMarcos]

It was yet another day on the planet Chiron. Things were peaceful in the morning, as was usual in this sector of pristine, unsettled land. Pterodactyls soared overhead, cackling their morning songs. The sun was rising, as usual. If it hadn't been for the purple sky, and the bizarre flora, and fauna, you could have almost sworn it was Earth.
However, sooner or later, all that was going to change...
And for that particular area, that time was now.
There was suddenly a loud rumbling, and the sky was changed from purple, to a shade of glowing scarlet. A long, blue fireball plunged out of the sky, and crashed into the ground. The earth...um...Chiron shook with the force of the impact, then seemed to literally ripple. Trees were torn out of the ground, and a nearby stream was practically rerouted.
The smoke soon cleared to reveal a long, cylindrical shape sticking out of the ground. In appearance, the rear end was reminiscent of a 20th century orbital launch rocket. And the object bore no U.N. markings. Instead, there was a single American flag painted on...

[PresidentMarcos]

Well...make some responses.

[Mr. President]

Pterodactyls?

[PresidentMarcos]

There are Dactyls on Centauri. At least that's what they look like...The thing is, they are absolutely huge, and they have large claws. Did you like it?

But anyway...

[PresidentMarcos]

Part 2

The long, silver object, that was stuck in the ground, began to quiver slightly. Slowly at first, but faster, and faster, and faster...

Several seconds later, the object fell down, flat on the ground. It soon stopped twitching.

On the inside, things were in chaos...

"Okay. Phase One is SUCCESFULL!" a loud, burly voice yelled out over the intercom. It belonged to the captain of the aptly named USS Mayflower. "I repeat, Phase One is SUCCESFUL! Landing drop is a success!"

A cheer went up through the hull of the Mayflower. The Eagle had landed.

In the carge bay of the Mayflower, preperations were being made. There was yet another shaking as the cargo doors opened, and an absolutely, chrome-colored tracked vehicle rolled out.

With an unearthly droning buzz, the vehicle moved north, flattening several more hectares of rainforest. It found itself a clearing, where it began it's work.

First, the body of the vehicle lowered itself down until it was flush with the rocky surface.

Next, the body literaly opened itself sideways in a clamshell fashion. Sitting beneath it, like a pearl, was a large, chrome colored sphere.

The chrome colored sphere rose on a telescoping column, until it was about 20 metres off the ground. Then, it's work began.

The sphere glowed golden, then began to spin around at a very high speed. It changed from a solid, to a liquid. The centrifugal force began to turn it into a slightly distorted sphere at first...

...but gradually, it became a disc...

...and then, it began to expand.

The disc grew, and grew, until it covered an area of 6.28 kilometers. It sagged slightly, until it lowered, and then was level with the ground. Then, it cooled very rapidly, and changed back into a solid object.

A second tracked vehicle rolled out of the Mayflower's cargo bay. It drove onto the center of the disc,a nd repeated the same process. But where there was a sphere, here, there was an annulus. It too heated itself, and spun around, until it covered the circumference of the disc. Then, it began to project a field around the circumference of the disc. The field grew to form a dome.

Eagle's Nest 1 was born.